E-Museum


www.mnsu.edu

Instructions:

Please visit the above link, it will take you to a fully online museum! There are lots of exhibits to visit here but for now, click on cultures on left yellow bar. Then click on “Old World Culture”, then click on “Africa”.


As you can see there are many cultures in Africa! Click on Ancient Egypt. You can read about Egypt or you look down at the bottom of the page right away.

Click on the “Ancient Egyptian Exhibit”. You are going to visit the longest river in Egypt, and in fact all of Africa! Click on “Daily Life”. Click on the first title. *Tip: It has the word geography in the link listed on the next page.

Activity:


1. The Egyptians centered their lives around this river because it brought water to their growing crops. Read the first paragraph on this page. What was the name of the river? Write the name of the river in your passport.


2. Now click “back” to Daily life, then click “back” again. You should now be on the “Ancient Egyptian Culture Exhibit” page. To show that you visited the Nile, draw a picture of it in your passport. You will see an outline of Egypt in your passport, draw the river on this map.